Sentence examples for old robes from inspiring English sources
"A man in old robes and a faraway look in his eye walked in from the street and approached our table.
He stood unshaved and burning with fever, dressed in sopping house slippers and several layers of old robes and cotton jackets, waiting — for what, he wasn't sure.
As the aging child star Baby Jane Hudson caring for her ex movie star, wheelchair bound sister (played with aching martyrdom by Joan Crawford), she's the picture of creepy cruel -- spackled white makeup, overdrawn mouth, baby doll ringlets, ratty old robes and little girl clothes (Davis insisted on looking this way -- even director Robert Aldrich was concerned about how scary she appeared).
Navin's office is in the old robe room.
She would sit with me when I watched TV in an old robe I would later wash.
Wrapped in an old robe, her hair disturbingly plastic-looking (the unfortunate wigs in this production are the work of Mia M. Neal, Ruthh wipes away some tears before rousing Travis Bryce Clyde Jenkinss), who is asleep on the couch.
When all the space is used up, a new one is begun and the old robe is retired to the Museum of the City of New York; the chorus members, meanwhile, retire to Florida.
It wasn't his old robe or his stained T-shirt or even how he talked with his mouth full of eggs; he wore those things every morning, and he always talked with his mouth full — it was just how he was.
In her 1978 autobiography, By Myself, she described his dissolution with the unflinching candour he would have expected of her: the odour of decay on his kiss, the old robe from Dark Passage she wore the night he died in the bed they had long shared, the sack in which his body was taken away to Forest Lawn crematorium.
It wasn't his old robe or his stained T-shirt or even how he talked with his mouth full of eggs; he wore those things every morning, and he always talked with his mouth full it was just how he was.
Cover up: Time to ditch that ratty old robe and go for something that can serve as a cover up for surprise guests, or for a midnight shuffle through common areas.
